A centrifuge testing program was undertaken to investigate the failure mechanisms of geosynthetic reiforced soil slopes and to evaluate the assumptions in their designs.

Kinematics plays a very important role in the behavior of landslides in discontinuous media. Discontinuous Deformation Analysis (DDA) is introduced as a technique that allows a realistic incorporation of kinematics in routine analyses.

An evaluation of the use of centrifuge modeling as a tool for analyzing the behavior of reinforced soil slopes is presented in this paper. A review of the state of the art indicates that previous centrifuge studies have focused mainly on the performance of ...